Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

novagirl11 Definitely reminded me of an 80s version of sisterhood of the traveling pants. Of course, Julia Roberts is great! I still can't figure out why Lili Taylor looks so familiar...also, what was in the pizza???

bkoganbing If Mystic Pizza had been done back in the day of the studio system I can see Jack Warner thinking of this as a perfect story for the Lane Sisters. It does have the feel of Four Daughters albeit with a little more frank sexuality.Sisters Julia Roberts and Annabeth Gish and their friend Lili Taylor are the waitstaff of the best pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, titled of course Mystic Pizza. Their employer Conchata Ferrall has a secret sauce that she puts on her product that's the talk of the town and several surrounding counties. Ferrall's big ambition is to have her place reviewed and rated by a snooty gourmet critic with a New England based television show, Louis Turenne.All three girls have men problems and all have different endings in their encounter. Lili Taylor can't believe that she's really got it all in Vincent Donofrio, it seems to good to be true. Julia Roberts gets herself involved with preppy Adam Storke who is out slumming with friends and ends up at her watering hole where she proceeds to take him and friends at billiards. And Annabeth Gish takes a job babysitting for William R. Moses while his wife is away and ends up falling for him.Although Mystic Pizza was Julia Roberts breakout role, I think the story of Gish and Moses is the best one. The affair is largely a product of Gish's misplaced expectations and Moses is too human to resist taking advantage of the situation. All three women end up wiser and really none the worse for the experiences.Mystic Pizza is a nice old fashioned kind of film with some really good parts for women and should be a testament to those who are writing roles for women when it is complained there aren't enough. For that matter there aren't enough roles period for all the talent out there.

James Hitchcock The title sounds intriguing, a sort of "Zen and the Art of Pizza Making". "Mystic Pizza", however, has nothing to do with mysticism. The "mystic" is a reference to the small town of Mystic, Connecticut, and the three main characters all work as waitresses at the town's pizza restaurant. The three are sisters Kat and Daisy Araujo and their friend Jojo Barboza. All come from the town's large Portuguese-American community, and all are in their late teens or early twenties. All are romantically involved, and the film traces the stories of their romances. Kat is the intellectual of the group; she has been accepted to attend Yale University and, besides her work at the restaurant, also acts as babysitter for a thirty-something Yale graduate named Tim whose wife is currently in Europe. She falls heavily for Tim after discovering that they have intellectual interests in common and cherishes the hope that he will leave his wife for her. · Daisy's love-interest is Charles Gordon Winsor junior, the son of a wealthy WASP family. Although the Winsors are "new" rather than "old" money, they have all the snobbish instincts of the most aristocratic blue-bloods, and disapprove of their son's romance with a girl who is "ethnic", a Roman Catholic and from a working-class background. (The comments about Daisy's ethnicity did not really ring true; the Winsors seem to regard Portuguese-Americans in much the same light as particularly unenlightened British colonialists used to regard the "natives", even though there have been Portuguese communities in the New England fishing ports for several generations). This sort of conflict is a commonplace in romantic dramas; the relationship between Charles and Daisy parallels almost exactly that between the rich WASP boy Oliver and the poor Italian Catholic girl Jenny in "Love Story". Here, however, the situation is given an unusual twist. After Charles engineers a confrontation with his family over a perceived insult to Daisy, she is perceptive enough to realise that his interest in her has less to do with love than with a self-conscious act of rebellion against his privileged background. Unwilling to be used as a weapon in his private battle against his family, she ends the relationship, although a more conventional romance would have presented Charles' outburst as something admirable and provided the expected "happy-ever-after" ending. Of the three romances, in fact, two end unhappily. Rather more predictably, at least in terms of adherence to dramatic conventions, Kat discovers too late that Tim has simply been using her and has no intention of leaving his wife for her. The one story that does end happily is that of Jojo, although even here normal Hollywood conventions are given a new twist. Jojo is engaged to Bill, a local fisherman, but is reluctant to commit herself to him in marriage. This is a reversal of the normal movie cliché in which it is the male characters who are portrayed as being frightened of emotional commitment. Bill (whose strong religious beliefs preclude sex before marriage) wants to get married as soon as possible, but Jojo doesn't believe she is ready. In his review of the film, written when it first came out in1988, Roger Ebert stated "I have a feeling that "Mystic Pizza" may someday become known for the movie stars it showcased back before they became stars." Of the three leads it was Annabeth Gish as Kat, whom he singled out for special mention, comparing her to a "young Katharine Hepburn." Gish is certainly good, but for me the star of the film was the still little-known Julia Roberts, who shows here not only the looks and the talent but also the charisma which were to make her a major star a couple of years later in films like "Pretty Woman" and "Sleeping with the Enemy". Lili Taylor as Jojo does not perhaps have quite the same impact, but there are some good contributions from some of the minor characters, especially Conchata Ferrell as Leona, the owner of the restaurant who claims to be in possession of a secret recipe for pizza sauce which she has inherited from her forebears on the Algarve. (And there was me thinking pizza was an Italian dish rather than a Portuguese one). Adam Storke as the spoilt rich boy Charles is the best of the male stars. The film has been described as a romantic comedy, although it does not follow the normal format of the standard Hollywood rom-com. A better description would probably be a coming-of-age story, set against a well-realised background of small- town life. In a traditional romantic comedy the main focus of interest would be Jojo finding the love of her life; here the focus is on all three characters learning lessons about life. As Ebert put it, it's about three girls discovering what their standards for love are going to be. This is not exactly an original theme, but "Mystic Pizza" adds enough original touches to keep it interesting. 6/10

Jackson Booth-Millard I should say that I remember the title, I remember the most well known actress of the film, and I am pretty sure I watched it all the way through, but I can't remember that much of what happens in it, from director Donald Petrie (Miss Congeniality). Basically the Arujo sisters, Kat (Annabeth Gish) and Daisy (Julia Roberts), and best friend Jojo (Lili Taylor) all live out their lives in Mystic, Connecticut, where they also work at the pizza parlour. Kat is off to Yale and falling for a man she babysits for, Daisy is a tearaway wasting her time with the wrong men, Jojo leaves the man she was to marry at the altar not wanting commitment, and the pizza is gaining fame for containing a special something. Also starring Vincent D'Onofrio as Bill, William R. Moses as Tim Travers, Adam Storke as Charles Gordon Windsor, Jr., Conchata Ferrell as Leona, Porscha Radcliffe as Phoebe Travers, Joanna Merlin as Mrs. Arujo, Arthur Walsh as Manny, John Fiore as Jake and Gene Amoroso as Mr. Barboza. I can't really give a better opinion or review until I see it again, but I am happy with what I have for now. Good!